:Timothy Good

Good is a British author about UFOs.{{cite news |title= The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas on May 31, 1987 · Page 9|access-date=2019-06-03 |newspaper=The Salina Journal |date=May 31, 1987 |page=9 |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1725999/ |url-access=registration |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |title= The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois on May 31, 1987 · Page 2|access-date=2019-06-03 |newspaper=The Pantagraph |date=May 31, 1987 |page=2 |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/72582553/ |url-access=registration |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |title= The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on August 6, 1988 · 42|access-date=2019-06-03 |newspaper=The Ottawa Citizen |date=August 6, 1988 |page=42 |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/463653124/ |url-access=registration |via=Newspapers.com}} In 1987 it was reported in The Observer that he was "Britain's leading UFO researcher".{{cite news |title= The Observer from London, Greater London, England on May 31, 1987 · 3|access-date=2019-06-03 |newspaper=The Observer |date=May 31, 1987 |page=3 |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/258472191/ |url-access=registration |via=Newspapers.com}}

In his 1987 book Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-up, he was involved in the initial publication of the purported Majestic 12 documents; later, according to skeptic Phil Klass, Good questioned the authenticity of at least some of the documents.{{cite periodical |title=Mechanical Flaw In Typewriter Used To Prepare One Of Tim Cooper's "New MJ-12 Documents" Matches Anomaly In Cooper's Typewriter |url=https://www.csicop.org/docs/SUN/SUN60.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919035718/https://www.csicop.org/docs/SUN/SUN60.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-19 |periodical=Skeptics UFO Newsletter |date=November 1999 |issue=60 |last=Klass |first=Phil |access-date=May 26, 2019 |publisher=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry}}{{cite periodical |title=Short Shrift |url=https://www.csicop.org/docs/SUN/SUN75.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410175441/https://www.csicop.org/docs/SUN/SUN75.pdf |archive-date=2017-04-10 |periodical=Skeptics UFO Newsletter |date=Spring 2003 |issue=75 |last=Klass |first=Phil |publisher=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry |access-date=May 26, 2019}} In 2007, the CIA cited Above Top Secret as one of the sources contributing to "the idea that CIA has secretly concealed its research into UFOs".{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/97unclass/ufo.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613113822/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/97unclass/ufo.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 June 2007|title=CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90|website=Central Intelligence Agency|author=Gerald K. Haines|date=4 April 2007|access-date=7 June 2019}}

In 2012 Good was interviewed on the BBC's Frank Skinner's Opinionated show.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eisenhower-met-aliens-says-timothy-good_n_1277133?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALVTbx_XTpWaIxJmmHpqcabAeNeKOxB-jk5NzwY1R6gYBCrUXljETx9Oe6pEcbbBWBBD-3WCS1rlqfhCj6qxdhah6lVgn-WpBsmxhWtQYu4EuL7H8BAkMc3-ycl-2WptY9E-DhN0o0YdBAQZ5P8d70m4bn7cDkKuNjDONnkIc4ZF|title=Eisenhower Met With ETs Says Ex-Government Consultant|work=Huffington Post|date=14 February 2012|access-date=7 June 2019}}

In May 2019, Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 credited Good's books with "opening his eyes" into UFOs, leading to DeLonge's development of To The Stars.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/blink-182-guitarist-tom-delonge-aliens-exist|title=Former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge talks his quest to prove aliens exist|publisher=Fox News|author=Jessica Napoli|date=June 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/tom-delonge-uap-history-unidentified-inside-americas-ufo-investigation-1435613|title=TOM DELONGE: AMERICA HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING UFOS FOR YEARS. TIME FOR THE REST OF US TO CATCH UP | author=Tom DeLonge |website=Newsweek | date=30 May 2019 | access-date=7 June 2019}}

Martin Bridgstock, in a review of Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-up for The Skeptic in 1989, identified two of the book's central ideas: that "Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) do exist, and are spacecraft from other worlds" and "there is a worldwide cover-up about UFOs, with security agencies seeking to suppress the evidence". Bridgstock concluded that the book:{{cite journal |last1= Bridgstock|first1= Martin |date= 1989|title= Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Conspiracy by Timothy Good (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987) - a review and some further thoughts|url= https://www.skeptics.com.au/wp-content/uploads/magazine/The%20Skeptic%20Volume%209%20(1989)%20No%201.pdf|journal= The Skeptic |publisher=Australian Skeptics|volume= 9|issue= 1|pages= 36–38|access-date= 7 June 2019}}

is not a clear, rigorous survey of the evidence for UFOs. It is a polemical volume, which seems to be devoted to making the case for UFOs, and a cover-up, seems as convincing as possible. However, inspection of the theses put forward in the book, and checking of a few cases with other sources, seem to show that the book is not reliable and its conclusion cannot be trusted.

Good was born in Islington, London.

• George Adamski: The Untold Story. With Lou Zinsstag. Beckenham: Ceti, 1983. {{ISBN|978-0950841403}}. With a foreword by Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender.
• [https://ia801405.us.archive.org/28/items/B-001-014-055/B-001-014-055.pdf Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up.] Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987. {{ISBN|978-0283994968}}.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/16/science/urge-to-investigate-and-believe-sparks-new-interest-in-ufo-s.html|title='Urge to Investigate and Believe' Sparks New Interest in U.f.o.'s|first=William J.|last=Broad|date=16 June 1987|newspaper=The New York Times}}{{cite news |last1=Delmont |first1=Jim |title=Author Proves Some Points, But Seems a Bit 'Gullible' (book review) |newspaper=Omaha World-Herald |date=21 August 1988}}{{cite news |last1=McMillan |first1=Robert |title=Stimulating study of 'the worldwide UFO cover-up |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |date=4 August 1990}}{{cite news |last1=Shiflett |first1=Dave |title=Bookshelf: UFOs: Invasion of the Mind-Snatchers (book review) |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=30 October 1989}}{{cite news |last1=Barry |first1=Steve |title=AUTHOR TRIES TO PROVE THAT UFOS AREN'T MERE FLIGHTS OF FANCY (book review) |newspaper=Columbus Dispatch |date=31 October 1996}} With a foreword by Lord Hill-Norton, GCB.{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/admiral-of-the-fleet-lord-hill-norton-883msp6wx5r|title=Admiral of the Fleet Lord Hill Norton|newspaper=The Times |date=19 May 2004}}
• Alien Liaison. London: Century, 1991. {{ISBN|978-0712621946}}.
• Alien Contact: Top-Secret UFO Files Revealed. USA: New Leaf, 1993. {{ISBN|978-0688135102}}.
• Alien Update. Edited by Good. Arrow, 1993. {{ISBN|978-0099257615}}.
• Beyond Top Secret. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1996. {{ISBN|978-0283062452}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15020355-500-review-ufo-at-12-oclock/|date=22 June 1996 |title=Review : UFO at 12 o'clock|website=New Scientist}} With a foreword by Peter Hill-Norton.
• Alien Base. Century, 1998. {{ISBN|978-0712678124}}.
• Unearthly Disclosure. Century, 2000. {{ISBN|9780712684651}}. With a foreword by Peter Hill-Norton.
• Need to Know. Sidgwick & Jackson, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0330442961}}.
• Earth: an Alien Enterprise. Pegasus, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1605986388}}.

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